Jacobien Rutgers is URC professor of European Private Law. She studied in Groningen. After obtaining her PhD (International Reservation of Title Clauses, A Study of Dutch, French and German Private International Law in the Light of European Law) at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence), she practiced in one of the major law firms in the Netherlands for four years. Subsequently she was a senior lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, where she taught inter alia Dutch property law, European private law and Private International Law. She is amongst other things a member of the board of the European Society for Contract Law (SECOLA) and a member of the comitato dei referee of the Osservatorio del diritto civile e commerciale.

Her research focuses on the interaction between national private law, European law and private international law. She has a particular interest in (i) contract law as an instrument to organize the welfare state and (ii) the enforcement of consumer law from a national and international perspective and (iii) choice of law in international contracts.

Teaching

consumentenrecht; international contract law; private international law (Private International Law, International Contract Law, Consumer Law)